Best 52 quotes in «left behind quotes» category

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life… But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday…. ….. and you’ll erase me completely.

It is queer to be in a place when someone has gone. It is not two other places, the place that they were there in, and the place that was there before they came. I can't get used to this third place or to staying behind.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

I won’t leave you out here, if that’s what you think. That’s not how I roll.

The roads I've abandoned. The people I've left behind.

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.

So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d always known Dell would disappear one day; he was too decent, too golden. This place never tainted that, and I don’t know why. He made me feel dirty. Dark and corrupt. It hadn’t always that way, and I don’t know when it changed... but I felt it now. I only knew I couldn’t hold onto him tight enough to stop those long legs carrying him away somewhere better. A day’ll come when everybody’s had you and nobody wants you anymore... As Dell drove Erin away in their rent-a-car from the Holiday Inn into the early evening traffic, I felt the walls closing in, the world swelling around me, and I knew that day had finally come. Tomorrow, I leave Paradise. It’s true. Shanise was right. I turned away as the car disappeared up the slushy street. That was the last time I saw them alive.

They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…

A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits. Though there are times where you have to stand up and yell. If I've got to throw a chair, I'll throw a chair. There was a meekness about me when I started, and I think the meekness has sort of evaporated. I hope that it's left behind a more passionate person, not a meaner person. So I guess that's what I've learned.

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.

In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.